This is the BBC Third Programme, here is the news by my iPhone
When the news network goes down, Radio 3 call Steve Jobs.
With the 7am News Bulletin approaching, Radio 3 news Announcer Alison Rooper had a problem. No script, no computer screens coming up, no email, and no internal phone line to find out what was going on in the world.
But the great backbone of the British Broadcasting Corporation won’t give in that easily.
Eventually making contact with a colleague, it became evident that the normal disaster recovery routines would not work. So it was time to improvise… Rooper had a suggestion.
My colleague said, ‘you can’t possibly read a script off an iPhone,’ but I told her, ‘it’s either that or we have no news, so let’s try it.’"
And with the email displayed on Steve Jobs little miracle of marketing, the news went out with only one hiccup. “-I tried tipping the phone sideways so that the writing becomes bigger and then I lost the whole sentence.”
Wallace Greenslade would have been proud.
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